oppressive
I
adjective
afflictive, arduous, burdensome, confining, cruel, crushing, cumbersome, cumbrous, depressing, detrimental, devouring, difficult, difficult to bear, distressing, engulfing, exacting, exhausting, fatiguing, formidable, galling, grievous, grinding, hard, harmful, harsh, heavy, hurtful, imperious, inhuman, iniquus, intolerable, irksome, laborious, molestus, onerous, operose, overbearing, overpowering, overwhelming, painful, pernicious, ponderous, rigorous, severe, stifling, strenuous, suffocating, taxing, tiring, toilsome, troublesome, trying, tyrannical, unbearable, uncomfortable, unendurable, unreasonable, unyielding, upsetting, vexatious, wearing, wearisome, weighty
II
index
bad (offensive), brutal, cruel, detrimental, dictatorial, disastrous, forcible, harsh, malignant, onerous, ponderous, severe, tyrannous
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006